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FALLING BUT FULFILLED - Reflections on Multiple Intelligences (2010) by Zachary M. Oliver 200 pp. 6" x 9" Softcover Tradebook ISBN 9780984555277 Education reform has become one of the most hotly contested topics in America today. Rather than focus on test scores, federal or private funds, or political conflicts, Dr. Zachary M. Oliver has fashioned a unique memoir that takes a powerful learning theory, Multiple Intelligences (MI) Theory, and demonstrates, through the story of his life, from his childhood to his years as an educator, the ways in which education touches nearly every activity of our lives. In Falling but Fulfilled, Dr. Oliver demonstrates how learning is an integral part of life, not just a statistic or test score, that is felt and obtained through reflection on the vast array of experiences that constitute our lives. NEUROBIOLOGICAL LEARNING SOCIETY CHOICE
Thirty-eight poems by sixteen outstanding poets and writers including Four Arrows, Penny Lynn Cates, J. R. Coleman, Nadia Cox, Helen Doan, Erin L George, IKO, Daniel S. Janik, Vivekanand Jha, Alex Kelley, Zachary M. Oliver, Cara Richardson, Michael Shorb, Jason Sturner, Jean Yamasaki Toyama and Jeremy Ussher.
Dehradun City, Himalayas, India 1977: Two bright, beautiful, lesbian research assistants accompany their Indian professor to this city near the tense borders of China and Nepal to observe the "holy-war" dance of the Mahabharata and its link to polygamy and local heroes (or villains?). The girls begin to question the holiness of the Bhagavad Gita's two polygamist avatars while watching the dance, even as they fall in love with India and their friendly hosts. While gathering data on women's rights violations, caste discrimination, and animal cruelty, they discover more about their own culture, their relationship and themselves. When their hosts uncover the women's secret love-life, they turn against them and the research team's existence is threatened. Will the Indian "holy-war" become a personal one between locals and outsiders, men against women, polygamists against lesbians, Indians against Americans? The answer lies in the Himalayan nights...
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.
Phenomenology is about recording and sharing authentic personal experiences in order to preserve truthful knowledge of past and present. In Hawaii's culture, it's called "talking story." The challenge with "talking story" is to uncover from within the significant and meaningful. CRITICAL WRITING: STORIES AS PHENOMENA is a practical guide to recording and sharing human experience, as well as conducting and evaluating phenomenological research. It incorporates practical suggestions and tools of interest to authors and phenomenologists, as well as writers, journalists and pre- and post-dissertation students interested in separating the truth from "fake news." The chapters provide a snapshot of ...
"There was an 'aura of greatness' about him," said observers. How did John A. Burns-a man who came from humble origins-develop this distinctive quality and become one of the greatest leaders in Hawaii history? Through a career in law enforcement, and politics that culminated in one of the most revered governorships in Hawaii history, John A. Burns displayed leadership abilities that brought commitment from supporters, commanded respect from adversaries, and led a political revolution at a time when transformational change in Hawaii was desperately needed. Out of the divisiveness of a Hawaii riddled by class warfare, racism, and economic division, arose a new Hawaii of greater unity, equality...
Sixty-four selected poems by twenty-two outstanding poets including, in order of appearance, Rose Seaquill, Bipul Banerjee, Dr. Mike, Doc Krinberg, Jock Armour, Mr. Ben, Emily Anderson, Marianne Smith, Carolina Casas, Cigeng Zhang, Thomas Koron, Mark Daniel Seiler, Dwight Armbrust Jr, Uhene, Daniel S. Janik, Lonner F. Holden, Sara Hawley, Ihar Kazak, Barbara Bailey, V. Bright Saigal, Ken Rasti and Teuta S. Rizaj. The sixth in the distinguished, multi-award-winning Savant Poetry Anthology series
In the first volume of the Commandment trilogy, we left Zachary, the failed hermit, as he began to expiate his sins in the interior desert of fourth-century Egypt. This second volume links his story with that of Leila, the peasant girl whom the bandit Darion saved from rape at the hands of his gang. While Zachary goes through a series of bizarre experiences in a lost desert oasis, Leila travels to the White Monastery, ruled by the ruthless Shenoute, where instead of the holy calm she expected she finds only lesbian practices and spiteful intrigue. When Zachary falls mortally ill he is rescued by an unexpected savior, and recovers to find himself a peasant in the Nile valley. There he meets Leila, who has been expelled from the White Monastery, and slowly, cautiously, almost unwillingly these two “Casualties of the Life”, as they call themselves, begin to fall in love. Once again, with exemplary research and evocative writing, Derek Bickerton brings to life an exotic but little-known period of history, and sheds a unique light on the early development of Christianity—both its good and its bad sides.
Action Research: An Educational Leader’s Guide to School Improvement, Fourth Edition is intended as a practical guide to conducting school action research. Although it offers neither a cookbook nor a quick-fix approach, this book does outline the process of designing and reporting an action research project. This bookis a comprehensive professional-development manual useful as a classroom text and self-teaching tool. This volume is also meant for teachers who may want to conduct action research. Teachers are leaders, too, and the strategies and techniques of action research described in this book are no different for teachers than they would be for administrators. As Glanz describes, leadership is not relegated to a position but to a set of beliefs and behaviors of professional educators who seek to improve their work and do their best for their students. These committed professionals view action research as an ideal vehicle to reflect on their work and help solve practical problems. Rather than merely a philosophical treatise or theoretical analysis, this book provides concrete strategies and techniques for conducting action research in schools.